Love and Death in a Hot Country Author:Shiva Naipaul In Cuyama, a steamy, post-colonial South American country, the government is about to vbe overthrown and replaced by an unnamed dictatorship. Against this background of social and political decay, the troubled marriage of Dina and Aubrey St. Pierre is coming apart. The chaos barely touches Dina, who is immersed in the frustrations of her own lif... more »e. But Aubrey, her conscience-stricken husband, believes he has a part to play in preserving the constitution. Sitting in the rear of his bookstore, he writes letters of protest to foreign newspapers and magazines. Then, quite unexpectedly, an old school friend of Aubrey's arrives.« less